Card holder



B. A. VICTOR CARD HOLDER June 19, 195] Filed March 22, 1946 KMM m f l AW M a 4 7 r 4 m 5M Patented June 19, 1951 I CARD HOLDER Bertram A.Victor, San Francisco, Calif.

Application March 22, 1946, Serial No. 656,392

- 1 Claim.

The present invention relates to card holders and particularly to afolding type of holder or case adapted to be carried in the pocket forthe reception and protection of photographs, identification cards orother card like articles which it is desired to have ready forconvenient inspection.

Such card holders are conventionally made of leather or other durableand attractive material reinforced with cardboard or the like and areformed somewhat in the manner of a book cover to produce a pair ofhinged panels. The inside or facing surfaces of these panels areprovided with pockets for the reception of cards or photographs and thepockets have windows of thin transparent film like material throughwhich the cards or photographs may be viewed without removing them.These pockets are usually made of leather which is stitched or glued inplace and which form a decorative frame for the Window of the pocket.Such pockets are costly to manufacture and are also comparatively thickor bulky so that they add considerably to the overall thickness of thecard holder. This is undesirable as a thick card holder occupies toogreat a space in the pocket in which it is carried.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved cardholder of the kind described and to provide a card holder having pocketsfor the reception of cards which pockets are made entirely of thin filmlike and paper like material secured within the outer case in a mannerwhich will reduce its overall thickness. Another object of the inventionis the provision of a card holder having pockets which will expose toview the entire surface of the card contained by them and which pocketsare constructed in a manner to insure ease in inserting and removingcards. Further and more specific objects and advantages of the inventionare made apparent in the following specification wherein reference ismade to the accompanying drawings which illustrate one form which theinvention may assume.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is an isometric view of a card holder embodying the presentinvention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a blank of transparent film which is used inmaking up one of the pockets in the card holder illustrated in Fig; 1;

Fig. 3 is an isometric view showing the blank of Fig. 2 in foldedposition and ready to be combined with the other part of a card holderpocket;

Fig. 4 is an isometric View of a piece of thin card board or the likefolded for combination with the material illustrated in Fig. 3 to form apocket;

and

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view taken through a pocket which isconstructed by combining the parts illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4.

Referring first to Fig. l of the drawings, a card holder embodying thepresent invention is illustrated as comprising a cover member in whichresembles the cover of a book in that it is centrally hinged so as tofold upon itself and to contain a pair of pockets H on its facingsurfaces which are protected by folding or closing the cover member B9.The cover is of conventional construction which need not be described indetail for an appreciation of the present invention but it may be saidthat it usually is formed of a stifiening material such as heavycardboard covered with leather which may be suitably decorated orembossed for ornamental purposes. Card holders of this general characterare well known and it has been conventional practice to provide pocketsby stitching or glueing leather frames to their inner surfaces and byaflixing transparent material in the frames to protect the cards orphotographs contained by them so that they are always exposed to viewwhen the holder is open. Such construction is costly and bulky and thepresent invention provides the pockets shown at H which are formedwithout the addition of leather or other relatively bulky material tothe interior of the card holder and also serve to expose to view theentire surface of whatever card or photograph may be contained by them.The pockets shown at [I are formed entirely of a plain sheet oftransparent film and a thin sheet of cardboard or similar material.

Fig. 2 shows a blank of the transparent film which is combined with thecardboard to form one of the pockets H. In this figure, the lines uponwhich the blank sheet is folded are indicated by dotted lines in thedrawing. The sheet which is substantially rectangular in shape, butwhich has its corners cut away at one end as indicated at l2 and at itsopposite end as indicated at I3, is adapted to be folded upon itselfalong a substantially central line it and to have its longer edgesfolded back along lines l5 and I 6 to form securing panels I1 and 18. Itis also folded along the dotted line !9 adjacent one end to form asecuring panel 28. The larger portion of the sheet is therefore formedinto a window of double thickness by the larger panels 21 and 21a, thepanel 2 la underlying the panel 2i when the fold is made along the line14. With all of the folds made as described, the blank illustrated inFig. 2 assumes the form illustrated in Fig. 3 with the panel 2!uppermost and with the securing edges l7, l8 and 20 all ready to befolded back beneath the panel 2|. A base member upon which the windowthus formed is mounted is illustrated in Fig. 4 as a thin sheet ofcardboard or the like folded up itself along the line 22 to provide atop panel 2 3 and a bottom panel 24. The trans parent elementillustrated in Fig. 3 is then combined with the base member illustratedin Fig. 1 and occupies a position with its panel 2! over: lying thepanel 23. The securing flanges :1, l5 and 20 are bent inwardly tounderlie the panel 23 and are secured to its under surface by glue orthe like. The lower panel 24 of the base member is then swung intocontact with these secured flanges and glued in place with the resultthat complete envelope like pocket is formed, which is capable of beingsecured to the inside of the cover member ID by glue, and which does notrequire any framing with leather or other decorative material to give ita neat and attractive appearance.

One of the advantages of this pocket member is that all of its exposededges are formed folds in the materials of which it is formed so thatthey are smooth and present a finished appearance. A particularadvantage of this construction is that both the edge 22 of the cardboardshape shown in Fig. 4 and the corresponding edge 25 of the transparentmember shown in Fig. 3 which edges cooperate to form an openingthroughout the full length of one side of the envelope for the insertionof a card or photo graph are formed by a bend in the material so that nosharp edge or unfinished edge is present to interfere with the insertionof a card or to become frayed or torn in use. This is most clearlyillustrated in Fig. 5 which is an enlarged sectional view taken throughthe members shown in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 after they have been combined andwith the thickness of the respective materials being greatly exaggeratedfor the purpose of illustration. In this view, it is apparent that thepanels 21 and Ho have been folded against each other to provide thefinished edge 25 which lies directly above the finished edge of the basemember panels 23 and 24. The securing flange 20 which is of singlethickness and 50 the securing flanges l1 and I8 are all glued in 4 placebetween the panels 23 and 24 of the base member so that the entireenvelope may conveniently be secured to the inside of the cover memberIt by glue or the like applied to the under side of the panel 24.

The pocket members as illustrated in Fig. 1 are preferably somewhatsmaller than the interior surfaces of the cover member ID so that amargin of the material of which the cover member H] is made will beexposed as a decorative frame for the pockets and this frame is, ofcourse, suitably ornamented or embossed if desired without in any wayadding to the thickness of the folder.

I claim:

An envelope like pocket for the display of a card in a cardholder whichcomprises a sheet of transparent film folded upon itself to provide arectangular window panel of double thickness with an edge formed as afold, securing flanges bent from the other three edges, and a basemember of paper like material folded upon itself to provide two panelsjoined by a folded edge with the securing flanges of the transparentmember disposed between them and with the folded edges of thetransparent member and the base member disposed adjacent each other.

BERTRAM A. VICTOR.

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